Experimental evidence for Abraham pressure of light

Zhang, Li; She, Weilong; Peng, Nan; Leónhardt, Ulf

doi:10.1088/1367-2630/17/5/053035

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“…Conservation of center-of-mass velocity requires the slab of mass M to move with a velocity (mc-mc/n)/(m+M), where m is the dynamical mass of a photon in vacuum with energy E=mc 2 , and conservation of global momentum requires the pulse to have the Abraham momentum. Various interpretations and experiments continue to contribute to this lively debate [6][7][8].…”

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Photon momentum transfer at water/air interfaces under total internal reflection

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The transfer of photon momentum at the water/air interface is important for optical manipulation of minute particles and is at the heart of the Minkowski-Abraham controversy. We use photoacoustic (PA) detection of ultrasound waves generated when pulsed laser light meets the water/air interface at 3.9°C (zero thermal expansion), to distinguish momentum transfer from thermoelastic effects. The PA waves dependence on the angle of incidence reveals that momentum transfer maximizes at the critical angle. Momentum transfer is most efficient when the photons travel in water and remain in water after total reflection at the interface, rather than when they cross the interface between dielectric media.

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“…We next replace the left hand side the of the dynamical equation of the medium in equation (16) by the expression on the last row of equation (24). Correspondingly, we replace the right hand side of equation (16) by the last row of equation (25). Thus, we obtain One can show that the sums of the second and third terms on the left and right hand sides of equation (26) are equal in the special case of the L frame, i.e.…”

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“…Therefore, the MP theory provides a complementary approach to discover the momentum and angular momentum of light in different media. Thus, it may revive interest in experimental studies of the Abraham-Minkowski controversy [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27] and its relation to angular momentum transfer of light [28][29][30][31][32] in the presence of dielectric media.…”

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Lagrangian dynamics of the coupled field-medium state of light

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Tulkki

2019

New J. Phys.

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In the recently introduced mass-polariton (MP) theory of light (Partanen et al 2017 Phys. Rev. A 95 063850), the optical force of light drives in a medium forward an atomic mass density wave. In this work, we present the Lagrangian formulation of the MP theory starting directly from the principle of least action and the well-known Lagrangian densities of the electromagnetic field and the medium within the special theory of relativity. The Lagrangian densities and the resulting Euler-Lagrange equations lead directly and without any further postulates to the unique expression of the optical Abraham force that dynamically couples the electromagnetic field and the medium in the MP theory of light. The field-medium coupling is symmetric and bi-directional and it fulfills the law of action and counteraction. The coupled dynamical equations also enable the exact description of the very small kinetic energy of the medium as a part of the total energy of the coupled state of light. Thus, the Lagrangian formulation of the present work is a complementary approach to Lorentz covariance properties of the MP theory discussed in our recent work (Partanen and Tulkki 2019 Phys. Rev. A 99 033852). We show how the coupled dynamical equations of the field and the medium can be solved analytically for a Gaussian light pulse. It is astonishing how the simple analytic results for the dynamical equations, the optical force, and the stress-energy-momentum tensor of the MP theory follow ab initio from the Lagrangian densities that have been well known for almost a century.

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“…Note that using the canonical momentum for the definition of  instead would not affect our forthcoming discussion. This is reminiscent of the resolution to the Abraham-Minkowski controversy [30,31], concerning the definition of optical momentum in dielectric media [32,33] (see [34] for a recent experiment).…”

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Kapitza–Dirac effect with traveling waves

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We report on the possibility of diffracting electrons from light waves traveling inside a dielectric medium. We show that, in the frame of reference which moves with the group velocity of light, the traveling wave acts as a stationary diffraction grating from which electrons can diffract, similar to the conventional Kapitza-Dirac effect. To characterize the Kapitza-Dirac effect with traveling light waves, we make use of the Hamiltonian Analogy between electron optics and quantum mechanics and apply the Helmholtz-Kirchhoff theory of diffraction.

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Experimental evidence for Abraham pressure of light

Cited by 57 publications

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Photon momentum transfer at water/air interfaces under total internal reflection

Photon momentum transfer at water/air interfaces under total internal reflection

Lagrangian dynamics of the coupled field-medium state of light

Kapitza–Dirac effect with traveling waves

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